* Joint Committee on Investigations, Oversight and Petitions

Petitions attracting 100, 000 signatures would prompt a parliamentary debate on a particular topic, but not necessarily lead to any Parliamentary Bills being put forward.

Petitions are commonly used in the U. S. to qualify candidates for public office to appear on a ballot ; while anyone can be a write-in candidate, a candidate desiring that his or her name appear on printed ballots and other official election materials must gather a certain number of valid signatures from registered voters.

Each House of Parliament has standing committees like the Business Advisory Committee, the Committee on Petitions, the Committee of Privileges and the Rules Committee, etc.

* 1st Vice Chair of the Committee on Petitions Michael Cashman MEP

* 1806 Remarks on the two last Petitions in the Lord's Prayer ...

One of the leaders in using the phrase, and in advancing the argument that slavery was a " positive good ", establishing the proper relation between the races, was John C. Calhoun, most notably in his Speech on the Reception of Abolition Petitions.

* Text of Calhoun's " Speech on the Reception of Abolition Petitions "

* Report of the Special Committee of the House of Assembly of Lower-Canada, on the Petitions Against the Road Laws and the Office of Grand-Voyer, 1830

More recently, since February 2007, he has been chairman of the Primary Industries and Resources Standing Committee and the National Capital and External Territories Standing Committee, as well as being an inaugural member of the Standing Committee on Petitions which was established to receive and process petitions to the Federal Parliament from citizens and groups.

In the Petitions Committee, where he is first vice-chair, Michael Cashman has been working on the so-called Spanish Land Grab crisis .< ref >

* 1998-99-Member, Committee on Petitions Member, Committee on Petroleum and Chemicals

He was also a substitute member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, the Committee on Petitions and the delegation for relations with the Mercosur countries.

On 13 June 2004 he was elected member of the European Parliament, and when the Parliament convened he was elected Chair of its Committee on Petitions.

He is also a substitute for the Committee on Petitions and the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.

The second petition was considered by the Petitions committee on 15 March 2010.

Petitions were circulated against Bishop Basil at the Cathedral and on the Internet.

However, as it was seen to be desirable that Crown contractors could obtain redress, lest they be inhibited from taking on such work, the petition of right came to be used in such situations, especially after the Petitions of Right Act 1860 simplified the process.

He is also a substitute for the Committee on Culture and Education, a substitute for the Committee on Petitions, a member of the delegation for relations with South Africa, and a substitute for the delegation for relations with Canada.

Petitions to the House of Lords did not have to seek reversal of lower court judgments ; often, petitions were brought directly to the Lords without prior consideration in the inferior judiciary.

* 1653: Petitions were lodged to try to stop the Duke of Northumberland's River from being reopened.

Petitions and proposals were repeatedly submitted to the state legislature to issue paper currency.

Petitions were signed by residents and taken to the Town Board.

Petitions against senators Lena Taylor ( D ), Spencer Coggs ( D ), Mark Miller ( D ), Glenn Grothman ( R ), Julie Lassa ( D ), Fred Risser ( D ), and Mary Lazich ( R ), were unsuccessful.

Petitions were launched in several areas, but only one received the signatures of 20 % of eligible parents, the level needed to trigger a ballot.

Petitions submitted by the colonies were officially ignored by Parliament.

Petitions for justice were normally addressed to the King and the Curia, but in 1280, Edward I instructed his justices to examine and deal with petitions themselves as the Court of King's Bench.

Petitions were passed around in all Paris neighborhoods to try and influence the government.

Petitions and signatures were gathered to be sent to Governor Herbert H. Lehman to ensure Marble Hill's status to remain part of Manhattan.

Petitions could be sent by anybody, from a scholar-official to a common farmer, although the petitions were more likely read to the emperor if they were persuasive enough to impeach questionable and corrupt local officials from office.

Petitions were a common form of protest and request to the British House of Commons in the 18th and 19th centuries, the largest being the Great / People's Charter, or petition of the Chartists.

* 2010 ( 6 December ): Hitherto free services were removed from the Inland Letter Post Scheme and became available under contract: Callers Service, Forwarding, Petitions to the Sovereign and to Parliament, Poste Restante, Private Post Box, Private Roadside Letterbox.

Petitions asking for some of the positions in the Legislative Council to be filled by popularly elected colonists were presented to London in 1865 and 1869.

Petitions were sent out to the King of the Two Sicilies, and to Lord Nelson, soliciting their aid and support.

Petitions for breach of law against decisions of the republic supreme courts were heard in the Supreme Court at the federal level.

Petitions for clemency were signed by 70, 000 people in Ireland and 10, 000 people in England.

In 1898 President of the United States William McKinley signed the treaty of annexation for Hawaii, but it failed in the Senate after the 38, 000 signatures of the Ku ’ e Petitions were submitted.

Petitions favoring readmission had been presented to the army as early as 1649 by two Baptists of Amsterdam, Johanna Cartwright and her son Ebenezer (" The Petition of the Jews for the Repealing of the Act of Parliament for Their Banishment out of England "); and suggestions looking to that end were made by men of the type of Roger Williams, Hugh Peters, and by Independents generally.

Petitions were accordingly sent to the king in many instances to remove his Jews from the boroughs, and they were expelled from Bury St. Edmunds in 1190, Newcastle in 1234, Wycombe in 1235, Southampton in 1236, Berkhamsted in 1242, Newbury in 1244.

Petitions asking for a jail term for Norristown attorney Julian W. Barnard will be presented to the Montgomery County Court Friday, it was disclosed Tuesday by Horace A. Davenport, counsel for the widow of the man killed last Nov. 1 by Barnard's hit-run car.

* Petitions may be presented

Petitions are presented at the foot of Tynwald Hill to the Clerk of Tynwald, who conveys them to the Lieutenant Governor.

Petitions presented to Council between March 30, 2005 and November 20, 2005 totaling 7, 380 signatures opposed the sale of the property, the destruction of the building, and the loss of much-needed public park and recreational lands.